REBECCA ROSSEN, PHD Department of Theatre and Dance Performance as Public Practice Program RESEARCH INTERESTS AND FIELDS Dance history and theory, modern and postmodern dance, physical performance, theatrical representations of identity, performance studies, American studies, gender studies, Jewish studies, cultural studies EDUCATION 2006 Ph.D., Northwestern University, Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Theatre and Drama, Evanston, IL (NU); Certificate in Gender Studies 1990 B.A., Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT APPOINTMENTS 2016–19 Division Head, Performance Studies and Pedagogy, Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Texas at Austin 2015-present Associate Professor, Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Texas at Austin • Core Faculty, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies (SCJS) • Affiliate Faculty, Center for Women’s and Gender Studies (CWGS) • Affiliate Faculty, American Studies Department 2008–2015 Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Texas at Austin • Core Faculty, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies (SCJS) • Affiliate Faculty, Center for Women’s and Gender Studies (CWGS) • Affiliate Faculty, American Studies Department 2008 Adjunct Lecturer, Theater and Performance Studies Program, University of Chicago 2005–08 Adjunct Lecturer, Gender Studies Program, Theater Department, and the School of Continuing Studies, Northwestern University 2004 Visiting Assistant Professor, Dance Department, George Mason University 1993–98 Adjunct Instructor, Dance, Theater, and Liberal Arts Departments, Columbia College Chicago ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2001–07 Founder, Artistic Director, TanzTeam DanceTheater, Chicago 1999 Performer, Margaret Jenkins Dance Company, San Francisco 1996–99 Co-Founder, Co-Director, Curator, Movable Beast Fringe Festival, Chicago 1996–97 Co-Founder, Choreographer, Performer, Loop Troop Dance Company, Chicago 1992–95 Performer, Cook County Theatre Department, Chicago 1990–95 Performer, Hedwig Dances, Chicago 1990–2003 Guest Artist with Pedro Alejandro, Timothy Buckley, Anthony Gongora, Ishmael Houston- Jones, Sally Silvers, XSight! Performance Group, Smith/Wymore Disappearing Acts, Audio Gruppe (Germany), Annat Shamgar & Guests (Israel), and Baldanza (Italy). Rossen CV 1 NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS 2015 Oscar Brockett Book Prize, Congress on Research in Dance ($1000, to be awarded at Pomona in November 2016) • Awarded for best book in dance published during the three previous years. Special Citation for Dancing Jewish, de la Torre Bueno Book Prize®, Society for Dance History Scholars ($500, awarded in Athens, Greece) 2012 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend Grant ($6000 for Dancing Jewish) • One of two faculty members nominated by UT to apply for this grant. • Out of 992 NEH applicants, 84 were awarded grants. Only two went to dance history. 2010–11 Research Grant, Lucius N. Littauer Foundation, New York ($10,000 for Dancing Jewish) • This foundation supports research in education and Jewish studies. They rarely support research outside of New York City. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HONORS AND AWARDS 2015 Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Texas system-wide honor ($25,000) 2012–13 Lucia, John, and Melissa Gilbert Teaching Excellence Award, Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, College of Liberal Arts, UT Teaching Excellence Award, Department of Theater & Dance, UT ($2500) 2010–11 New Faculty Development Fellow, Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, UT ($2000) UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS (PI) 2009–16 Multiple Travel Grants, Graduate School and Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies; Special Research Grant, Office of Vice President for Research, UT 2014–15 Special Research Grant, Office of Vice President for Research, UT 2012–13 Subvention Grant, Office of Vice President for Research; Summer Research Assignment, and Special Research Grant, Office of Vice President for Research, UT 2011–12 Summer Research Assignment, Graduate School 2010–11 Research Grant, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies; Ducloux Fine Arts Faculty Fellowship, College of Fine Arts 2009–10 Creative Research Summer Stipend, College of Fine Arts; Research Grant, Office of Vice President for Research 2008–09 Summer Research Assignment, Graduate School, UT ARTISTIC GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2005 Special Assistance Grant, Illinois Arts Council, for Make Me a Jewish Dance Choreography Grant, City of Chicago, for Make Me a Jewish Dance 2002 Grant, Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts, NU, for Dancing Jew Ish 1993–97 Numerous Choreography Grants, City of Chicago, Dept of Cultural Affairs ($750 - $1500) ARTISTIC HONORS AND AWARDS 2009 Nominee, Austin Critic Table Awards, Best Touring Show. Nominated for “Warriors and Queens,” Department of Theatre and Dance and CWGS, UT 1998 Special Citation, Chicago Dance Coalition, Ruth Page Awards, for co-founding Chicago’s first fringe dance festival (The Movable Beast) Rossen CV 2 PUBLICATIONS Books In Progress Holocaust Dance: Representations of the Holocaust in Contemporary Dance. This book will examine dances about the Holocaust by Jewish and non-Jewish choreographers. 2014 Dancing Jewish: Jewish Identity in American Modern and Postmodern Dance (Oxford University Press). This extensive history of Jewish contributions to American dance covers 75 years, features 51 images, and includes a web companion with 51 clips from dances analyzed in the book. 336 pages. Refereed Articles 2012 “Jews on View: Spectacle, Degradation, and Jewish Corporeality in Contemporary Dance and Performance.” Theatre Journal 64, 1 (March 2012): 59–78. 2011 “Uneasy Duets: Contemporary American Dances about Israel and the Mideast Crisis,” TDR: The Drama Review 55, 3 (Fall 2011), 40–49. “Hasidic Drag: Jewishness and Transvestitism in the Modern Dances of Pauline Koner and Hadassah,” Feminist Studies 37, 2 (summer 2011): 334–64. Chapters 2016 “Dancing Jews and Jewesses: Jewishness, Ethnicity, and Exoticism in American Dance,” chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity, Anthony Shay and Barbara Sellers- Young, eds. (New York: Oxford University Press), 66–90. 2006 “The Jewish Man and His Dancing Shtick: Stock Characterization and Jewish Masculinity in Postmodern Dance,” chapter in You Should See Yourself: Jewish Identity in Postmodern American Culture, Vincent Brook, ed. (Rutgers: Rutgers University Press), 137–54. Commissioned Articles 2007 “Moving Through the Interspace: Emio Greco/PC’s Orfeo ed Euridice, Opera Quarterly, 22.1 “Teaching History: Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn,” Dance Teacher Magazine (October 2007): 120–24. “Teaching History: Mary Wigman, Early Modern Dance Pioneer, Dance Teacher Magazine (April 2007): 74–79. Encyclopedia Entries 2014 “Sophie Maslow,” entry for Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. In production. Book Reviews 2016 “Dancers as Diplomats: American Choreography in Cultural Exchange by Clare Croft,” Dance Research Journal 47:3 (December 2015): 111–15. 2007 “André Lepecki, Of the Presence of the Body & Exhausting Dance, Dance Research Journal 39:2 (Dec 2007): 103–06. 2006 “Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Review’s ‘Jewish Dance’ Issue,” Dance Research Journal (summer 2006): 114–18. Blogs and Letters to Editor 2014 “Hasidic Drag in American Modern Dance.” Oxford University Press, blog. 2011 “A Need to Understand Dance,” Daily Texan Rossen CV 3 SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS Selected Refereed Conference Papers (given while at UT) 2016 “Empathy and Testimony: Holocaust Dances by African American Choreographers,” Society of Dance History Scholars (SDHS) & Congress on Research in Dance (CORD), Pomona “Excavating History: Memory, Community, and Place in Site-Specific Holocaust Performance,” Biennial Scholar's Conference in American Jewish History, New York City 2015 “The Work of Dance: Stephen Mills’s Light/the Holocaust & Humanity Project and Allison Orr’s Trash Project, Society of Dance History Scholars (SDHS) and Congress on Research in Dance (CORD), Athens, Greece 2014 “Jewish Dance,” paper for Keywords panel curated by Dr. Susan Manning, featuring leading voices in the field. SDHS and CORD, University of Iowa. "The Dancing Jew(ess): Ethnic Ambiguity and Jewish Drag in American Modern Dance,” Biennial Scholar's Conference in American Jewish History, Emory University. 2013 “Dancing Zionism: The Role of Modern Dance in American Zionism,” AJS, Boston. 2012 “Modern and Postmodern Jewesses: The Biblical Heroine and Feminism in American Dance,” CORD, Albuquerque, NM. “The Time Is Now: American Zionism and Sophie Maslow’s Utopian Choreography for Israel Bonds,” SDHS, Philadelphia, PA. 2011 “Uneasy Duets: American Dances about Israel and the Mideast Crisis,” American Studies Association, Baltimore, MD. “The New Jewish Dance in America: Jewish Dance, Ethnic Dance, Modern Dance,” SDHS, Conference, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 2010 “The Dancing Jew(ess): Jewish Drag in American Dance and Yiddish Film,” CORD, American Society for Theatre Research, Theatre Library Association, Joint Conference, Seattle, WA. “Jews on View: The Spectacle of the Jewish Body in Postmodern Dance,” SDHS, Conference, University of Surrey, London, UK. “Dance and Spectacle,” Panelist for Plenary Roundtable, SDHS, Conference, University of Surrey, London, UK. 2009 “Dancing Zionism, Embodying Conflict: American Zionism and Postmodern Dance,” SDHS, Conference, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA. Invited Professional Lectures and Keynotes 2017 “Excavating History: Memory, Community, and Place in Site-Specific